{"id":111570,"date":"2021-09-09T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T12:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=111570"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T15:02:12","slug":"supply-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/09\/09\/supply-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the Wright State University <a href=\"https:\/\/business.wright.edu\/\">Raj Soin College of Business<\/a> delivered backpacks stuffed with school supplies to Greene County school kids.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State students purchased and put together 48 backpacks filled with notebooks, glue sticks, pens, pencils and other supplies for first graders at Fairborn Primary School. On Sept. 7, Beta Alpha Psi members hand-delivered the supplies to Vicki Hudepohl, Fairborn Primary School principal, and several first-grade students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kids that we got to see today were behind their masks, but you could tell they\u2019re happy and smiling,\u201d said Jillian Egbert, a senior accountancy student.<\/p>\n<p>Hudepohl said teachers and school counselors will distribute the backpacks and supplies to the students who express a need for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lots of families that are really struggling,\u201d said Hudepohl. \u201cKnowing that there are people out there that are willing to help my children now that I\u2019m a principal is overwhelming for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beta Alpha Psi, an international honor organization for financial information students, organized the community service project. The students utilized funds from last year\u2019s fundraising activities, including 50\/50 raffles, purchase the backpacks and school supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the Raj Soin College of Business delivered backpacks filled with school supplies to Fairborn Primary School. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/09\/09\/supply-drop\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":111574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748,2025,4906,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-community-service","category-finance-accountancy-management-information-systems-and-economics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111707,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111570\/revisions\/111707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}